Cloud & Data Solutions | Bridge Communications LLC

CLOUD

As IT becomes more and more strategic and critical in impacting an organization’s bottom line, companies look to the Cloud to decrease IT complexity and drive ROI. For some organizations, Cloud solutions can be more secure, predictable and scalable than on-premise solutions.

Bridge Communications provides organizations with over 40 Cloud solution options. We’ve vetted the top suppliers for each technology, and we understand their strengths and weaknesses in each category. We’ve also assessed the optimal suppliers for your specific vertical.

Colocation

Safeguard your mission-critical applications and systems in fully compliant data centers with redundant power, cooling and connectivity with colocation.
As your trusted IT and telecom advocate, Bridge Communications can help your business strategize, source and implement the best colocation solution for your business. Our primary goal is to ensure that you, our customer, receive the best possible solution that maps and scales to your business objectives.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Hackers, cyber-terrorists, natural disasters and manmade disasters are no match for the Cloud. Consolidate your hardware infrastructure or become completely hardware independent with a virtual disaster recovery and business continuity solution. With the right partner, you can centralize your recovery plan in a seamless, secure redundant environment at a fraction of the cost of tradition disaster recovery on-premise solutions.

Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS

Reduce IT complexity, obsolescence, and costs by moving your IT infrastructure to a virtual environment. Virtualizing your colocation, disaster recovery, and storage infrastructure in public, private or hybrid Clouds can make organizations more manageable, secure, and scalable at a much lower cost.

Private, Hybrid & Public Cloud

Whether on-premise in your own data center, third-party, or a combination of the two (hybrid), cloud computing can benefit your organization in a multitude of ways:
• Reduce spending on technology infrastructure
• Achieve greater economies of scale
• Enhance globalization of workforce
• Improve security
• Reduce CAPEX significantly
• Minimize software license requirements
• Increase flexibility and reactivity
• Reduce training and learning curves
• Achieve better visibility company-wide
• Streamline business processes

IT as a Service or ITaaS

Focus your time and budget on IT strategy by migrating your more tactical IT responsibilities to the Cloud. ITaaS means your helpdesk, security, software updates, mobile device management, monitoring and management can all be managed by trained specialists in the Cloud. ITaaS reduces capex, puts transparency around your financials and ensures predictability around cash flow.

Desktop as a Service or DaaS

Embrace a mobile workstyle by utilizing the Cloud to access business applications and desktops on any device and in any location. DaaS eliminates the need for software maintenance and makes purchasing and managing workstations simple and fast. No need to manage servers or hardware, and obsolescence becomes a thing of the past in the right Daas ecosystem.

Unified Communications & Collaboration

Allow on-site and remote users to collaborate seamlessly between devices and platforms with Unified Communications. VoIP, mobility, video-conferencing, instant messaging, bring-your-own device (BYOD), collaboration, and presence technologies can all work together seamlessly in the cloud…with the right solution and implementation.

DATA

Technology advances are accelerating the integration of the communications and IT worlds into a cohesive, inseparable business catalyst. With so many options, the method by which busy executives strategize, source, implement, and maintain their carrier services is more important than ever before.

The telecommunications landscape can be confusing, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive for IT managers who don’t speak the language or fully understand the landscape. Connectivity, compliance, security, up-times and service levels are just a few variables to manage, and each metric varies from carrier to carrier and from company to company. Through our strategic relationships with 70+ carriers and suppliers, Bridge Communications is your strategic partner that will help your IT department navigate through the noise, ensuring that your carrier services integrate powerfully with your IT infrastructure and business vision. And we’ll be your single point of contact for all carrier service related issues for your business for the lifetime of your contract.

Wide Area Network or WAN

Organizations operating in multiple geographic locations require employees, clients, and vendors to function efficiently in a single reliable network. Wide area networks (WANs) empower remote stakeholders to communicate and collaborate securely under one network, as if located within the same four walls.

The introduction of cheap bandwidth has significantly changed WAN technology. MPLS, VPLS, Broadband, FTTC, xDSL, fiber, copper EFM, 3G or 4G, and point-to-point: All serve a specific purpose for organizations today, and each has strengths and weaknesses based upon an organization’s geographic and IT infrastructure.

Ethernet

As companies become more digital, more global, and more virtual, high-performing and reliable Ethernet services become a strategic advantage for organizations. Utilizing the right carrier with the right cost effective solution allows organizations to deliver data, information, and applications securely over both Local Area and Wide Area Networks reliably and securely. We’ll help you determine the best Ethernet solution for your business, vet the best providers in your area, see the implementation through to the end, and will be your single-point-of-contact for all your Ethernet service needs.

Mobile Infrastructure

Small Cells and Distributed Antenna Infrastructure Systems (DAS), Tower Backhaul and MSC Connectivity Solutions.

Satellite

Broadband Internet Satellite Services, Point to Point Wireless Data Services, Optical Wireless Services, 3G Fixed Wireless

VPN

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) use encryption and tunneling to extend your company’s private network across a public network, like the Internet. By utilizing the right VPN solution, your business can operate between regional offices and remote/roaming users as if directly connected to your private network. VPNs scale easily from 64k to 100G and can combine with your voice network to reduce costs and reduce the number of circuits you need to manage. VPN solutions are often cheaper than MPLS and are an excellent choice for data recovery because they can quickly reroute traffic to a secure data recovery sites during emergencies

SIP Trunking

Some organizations have already made huge investments in legacy PBX phone systems. But they still want the benefits that come through converging all local and long distance phones systems and broadband Internet services onto one line. SIP Trunking allows businesses to reap VoIP-like benefits with legacy systems, without investing in new infrastructure. Using SIP, you can consolidate all your communication systems, including data and voice into one bill and a single point of contact.

Broadband

Broadband today is about more than just high speed Internet connections in the office. In today’s business environment, it’s about having a connection wherever your employees need it. Whether DSL or Cable high speed Internet, Wi-Fi connectivity, or Mobile Broadband, all broadband networks are not created equal. Each carrier displays unique strengths and weaknesses depending on the region of the country you’re located, your business structure, and your vertical.

MPLS

If your business wants more from its current network, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a highly scalable packet-switched network solution that increases traffic performance in high usage networks. MPLS assigns data packets with specific labels, thus routing data through virtual paths between nodes rather than endpoints. The results? Enhanced bandwidth use, reduced network congestion and an overall better user experience. MPLS supports DSL, TI/E1, Frame Relay and ATM.